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and the outdreak of civil war makes that a real longshot



What civil war is this? Or are you just prjecting wishfull thinking?



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San Francisco Chronicle, March 20, 2006


The picture painted on Sunday by the administration clashed with the views of Ayad Allawi, a man Bush once hailed as exactly the kind of balanced leader Iraq needs. In an interview with the BBC on Sunday, Allawi said that the country was nearing a "point of no return."

"It is unfortunate that we are in civil war," said Allawi, who served as interim prime minister after the U.S. invasion and who now leads a 25-seat secular alliance of representatives in Iraq's 275-member National Assembly. "We are losing each day, as an average, 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more.

"If this is not civil war," he concluded, "then God knows what civil war is."